The Eternal Student \u201cCivilization Ain\u2019t Dead Yet\u201d Award:<\/u> This one goes out to Nickleback for the cover of their latest CD \u201cThe Long Road\u201d. I saw it in Best Buys the other day and said to myself \u201cMy God, Impressionism!\u201d Let\u2019s hope that other bands get the idea of incorporating classic art within their marketing plans.<\/p>\n
Note of Caution to Not-Quite-Geeks:<\/u> Be careful in disposing of a broken computer or any storage media, including CDs, floppys, hard drives, whatever. Someone recently told me that there\u2019s a little industry forming, made up of people who roam around landfills or cruise through suburban neighborhoods on junk collection day, looking for thrown-out computers. They take ’em home and hook the storage media up to a diagnostic machine, searching it for files or memories containing Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords, registration numbers, etc. Obviously they sometimes find things of value, or else they wouldn\u2019t be doing this. Good old identity theft. I\u2019m not an expert at how to permanently destroy memory \u2013 there are probably web sites that deal with this. But do keep the overall problem in mind when you throw computer-related stuff out.<\/p>\n
Not-So-Famous-Last-Words:<\/u> Back in 2000 we got some new computer equipment at work and they gave me a PC with an external USB drive meant for Imation \u201cSuper Disks\u201d. Super Disks were a nice idea, a three and one-half inch \u201cfloppy\u201d that had enhanced media inside holding 120 megs of data, not the usual 1.44 megs of regular floppys. Sure, CDRW was prevalent by then, but CD drives seemed clunky and slow compared to a floppy drive (and still do). The Super Disk seemed like a happy compromise, easy to use and carry but still holding a lot of stuff.<\/p>\n
So, when I ordered a Dell for home, I shelled out an extra $50 for a floppy drive that reads LS-120 Super Disks. I figured that they couldn\u2019t miss. Imation was quite optimistic too. On the back of each Super Disk case it said \u201cHere to Stay. Super Disk will become the new standard disk drive \u2026 soon you\u2019ll see Super Disk Drives built into desktop PC,s notebooks, external drives \u2026 It\u2019s the technology with staying power\u201d.<\/p>\n
The prophecy was not to be fulfilled. Imation never let the price go below $10 a disk (which was reasonable compared to a regular floppy, given that it held 80 times as much data, but no contest against a 50 cent CD that held 5 times more than the Super Disk).<\/p>\n
So, Super Disks have gone the way of the eight-track tape. I\u2019ve got seven disks at home and I still like to use them. But obviously I don\u2019t put anything on them that isn\u2019t backed up somewhere else. Sic transit gloria …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Eternal Student \u201cCivilization Ain\u2019t Dead Yet\u201d Award: This one goes out to Nickleback for the cover of their latest CD \u201cThe Long Road\u201d. I saw it in Best Buys the other day and said to myself \u201cMy God, Impressionism!\u201d Let\u2019s hope that other bands get the idea of incorporating classic art within their marketing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}